systray applet only shows white rectangles

[mickey@…]

The matchbox-panel-2 only shows a white rectangle for every applet that docks
into it.

[mallum@…]

matchbox-panel-1 applets ?

[mickey@…]

Yes. We'd like to use the matchbox-inputmanager and the matchbox-startup-monitor
together with matchbox-panel-2.

[mallum@…]

You are probably better off rewriting them to not be system tray applets (i.e
applet modules) or at least as gtk based systray applets. Reasoning;

• For some reason mb systray applets do not work well with gtk based systray

docks. I have tried to debug this in the past with little success - they did
work at sometime in the past. Im sure it is fixible but its probably the same
amount of work to do either of the above and this is a better solution long term.

• The background of systray applets can only be solid color and matchbox

applets have no way of knowing what this color should be in GTK

• Im really trying to kill off matchbox-panel-1 and libmatchbox and replace

with matchbox-panel-2/gtk. I dont really develop either anymore.

[mickey@…]

Ok, thanks for the comments. I guess I'll have a go at converting both applets
to matchbox-panel-2 then.

[stefan@…]

Short status update:

I'm working the startup-notifier applet migration right now. Input manager
follow afterwards.

[stefan@…]

The matchbox-panel-2 startup notifier, openmoko-panel-startup, works fine now.
It is already in svn and tested.

I already got a review from Matthew for the matchbox vanilla version. We should
be able to merge this into matchbox svn soon.

[stefan@…]

In terms of the input manager applet.

Matthew and Ross had worked out a gtk input method which let the keyboard popup
once a textentry field is in use.

​http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/matchbox/trunk/matchbox-keyboard/gtk-im/

It is pretty new and I have not tested it yet, but I will do this next week.

The only drawback I see is that we still need somekind of proxy or other visible
thing to switch between the different input methods. This brings me to the
question if we will stay with three different input methods: matchbox-keyboard,
openmoko-keyboard and stroke recognition

[stefan@…]

openmoko-panel-startup oe infrastructure

[stefan@…]

(From update of attachment 160)
Patch is in svn now

[stefan@…]

The white rectangle is gone now due to upstream fixes.

It remains the problem with the applet for choosing input methods. I'm working
on this problem now.

[stefan@…]

I just added a patch for a matchbox-keyboard to OE.dev and sent it upstream for
discussion and hopefully inclusion.

With this the white rectangle is no more needed to enable/disable the keyboard
if autopopup fails.

We still need a real Inputmethod API. But this is discussed in Bug #44

[mickey@…]

changing component to openmoko-panel, component matchbox-panel-2 will be removed